How naive it is for the WSJ to consider the violence in Libya and Egypt as challenging "U.S. Policy in [the] Mideast." The challenge is to U.S. Policy period, to U.S. Constitutional Policy, and to the underlying assumptions of Western Civilization: that the free exchange of ideas (and freedom of/from religion) are crucial.

There is very good reason for anger by U.S. lawmakers. One has to ask, "Why only some of them." One must answer, "The leverage."